The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-30
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Bonifacio, for he had left behind him
neither father, brother, cousin nor relative
to pysY Itke, pendetts;J noJone gave 20
tho69hEt id uIehEotler- eshe was b woman.
and too old and feeble.
On the other side of the strait, off in
the distance, the widow Saverini saw
from morning till night white point
rising from the coast. 1t was the little
Sandman village of Longosardo, where
the Corsican bandits, when tracked too
cloyeEnby1 the eInissaries of the; govern
mebt, Mere in taie habit of seeking refuge
They afoHe 'pedpled: this haihlet, facing the
coast of their native country, and there
awaited the moment Of return-return to
their forhpr life and to the hiding places
in the thieketssl It was In this Longo-
snrdo, she was sure of it, that Nicolas
Ruvolat had, himself sought safety,
MI tASaa'{ SsiEtihS at;hef window she
ssGZed ut that distant village and dreamed
OF the vengeance to come. But how
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Still she had promised it, had sworn it
even, above the corpse of her son. She
could noe S9rgettlyit, end could not wait,
nor rest day or night, obstinately seeking
for means to pay this debt.
The dog sleeping ut her feet had for
gotten as little as the mother, and would
sometimes lift her head and break into q
mournful wailing. Since her masters
death she had frequently howled thus as
if she called to him, and guarded in her
brute soul q memory that nothing could
efface. fft5s libi'! Sti
Suddenly one night, as Semillante began
her usual lament, hep mistress was seized
with an inspfrhtbG,d savage, vhdictive,
ferocious inspiration. She meditated upon
it al pight, and " the morning took her
way 10 The Village church. There she
prayed PROSTATE upon the stones, bowed
down before her God, supplicating Him
TO aid and to sustain her and to give to
her feeble and worn out body the strength
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home.
In her yard was an old headless barrel
used Us a receptacle fOr 1.-THE water that
ran from the cutters. She emptied it,
upset il, fastened it to the earth with
sticks and stones, and then, claiming
Semillante securely in the center of 1t,
returned to her chamber and to her Sleep
less vigil by the window, her eyes always
fixed upon the coasts of Sardinia; She was
over there-he, the assassin
All that day and all that night the dog
cop@lHsa Fpl hpwt q In!ttie morning the
old Woman carried her bowl of water,
but nothing else-not a morsel of bread,
not drop of soup, not piece of bacon.
The hours crawled on; night came again,
and Semillante, stretching herself out,
slept -rrhe- day after, however, she had
bulhip8 etef, Esbr6Sling sksih, and wildly
puilet Hrsohh -ff6r chain The old woman
still gave her nothing to cat. The beast was
furious, and moaned continually in low,
hoarse tones. Thus the night passed
again.
At peep Of day Mother Saverini betook
herself to the house of o neigbbor, begr
ging from lyiBi Isbike buiidles' of straw;
which she carried to her home, and with
it stuffed a suit of clothes that had be-
!ongsd tssatsfs rAasOaR4 WITH i soresthe
this manilIin to a stake driven into the
for.sfR Mh6hi Tboa. b. Mith a block of
wood and a bundle Of old linen, and stood
aside to view the result. 1t was perfect;
even the dog was deceived, and though
perishing with hunger ceased its moaning
In the face of this man of straw.
Satisfied that the work was well begun,
fhefuaG3wonaan now brought forth b long
roll of black sausage, and lighting fire
on the, pavement, proceeded. to lbroil it,.
Senhil1ante, maddened by the smell, yelped
and bounded to the length of her tether,
her tongue, thick and swollen; hanging;
from her jaws, her eyes, red and flaming,
fixed upon the smoking meat, the fumes
or Which So epticed her famished stomach,
At last The Sausage was done, and lifting
1t from the pan the old woman wound it
lk9a ceawat about ahe neck of the figure,
tying it securely into place, so as to force
the dog to tear and rend it bit by bit in
the effort to obtain food. 'Etl'ia~' ~ sS'
when this. too. was finished Semillante